Wedding Shenanigans...

We went to a friends wedding and they had the cutest little photo booth set up, it was so much fun!! You put on some sort of crazy accessory and then hopped in the booth and did your thing, they then printed two sets of the pictures for you, one to keep and one to paste in their guest book. It was awesome!! Brendan (the one getting married) is the little brother of our good friends, Lindsay and Levi, so we had fun playing in the photo booth with them and their darling little Ava. If I had known they were going to have this fun thing we would have taken Jordyn with us, she would have loved it!! The pictures were to funny not to share...

Levi, Lindsay, Ava, Brian and me!!

This the one that we put in the book, aren't we just the awesomest?!

Easter Time!!

Here are a few pictures of our Easter celebrations this year:

Temple Quarry Trail!!

During our trip to St. George this spring we went on a little hike (not so much a hike as a nice long stroll) on the Temple Quarry Trail which is where the pioneers got the rock for the St. George temple. It was really fun to see all the wheel marks and other things left behind by our ancestors. The best part was walking with my grandpa and hearing all the stuff he knows. I'm pretty sure he knows EVERYTHING there is to know about St. George! I learned more in those couple hours then I could have anywhere else. Plus it's always special when I get to spend time with my Pa =) Jordyn loved it and I think she ran a good portion of the way there but after that she needed a little daddy help to make it back to the car. All of us enjoyed ourselves immensely. Our little hiking party included Brian, Jordyn, my mom, my dad, my grandpa and my uncle Greg. And to top it off the sunny weather was a very welcome break from all the gloomy weather we had been having back home!!

Wyatt's Wedding

In March one of our very best friends was married. We are so happy for him!! It was a great night since not only did we get to see Wyatt and his beautiful bride, Kristy, but also one of our other best friends, Adam, and his girlfriend flew in from North Carolina to be there. We had been looking forward to getting together for a long time and were excited to meet Adam's girlfriend, Cassia. We loved her!! Hopefully we will all be able to get together again soon!! We love you guys!!

4 years old!!

On December 26, 2010 our little Jordyn turned 4. I can't believe it!! Where did the time go? How did my little baby turn into a a little girl? I've heard tell of this phenomenon, the rapid aging of your own children and those children around you that you love, but this is ridiculous!! And to make it worse, as of now she's already 4 1/2 and has a year down of preschool and dance. One more year and she'll be in kindergarten!! It makes me a little sick to think about this actually... Anyway here are some cute pictures from the many celebrations of Jordyn =)

Pet Shops!!

Waiting to open presents at home

Sock Monkey from great Grandma Pollei!!

The birthday girls!!

**Silver Bells...It's Christmas Time in the City**

Jordyn w/ Jeanette, Alicia & Santa Verl at our ward Christmas party

Jordyn's Christmas list, my favorite part is her telling Santa he's her hero *lol*

Jordy & Ella in the Christmas jammies!

Santa hats =)

Opening presents at Grandma Paula's and Papa Allen's!!

Ella, Dylan, Preston, Jordyn, Easton, Conner & Emree on Christmas Eve

Watch out world, here I come!!

Milk, cookies and diet Pepsi for Santa. Jordyn insisted on leaving diet Pepsi along with the milk because "Santa needed the energy" =) it was very cute!

PILLOW PET!!!!

Bri and his Mavs tie!!

Primary "service drive-in" Activity

In December my primary presidency and I decided to have a service drive-in for our quarterly activity. We gave the kids boxes to make cars and then we set up 3 "service stations". The kids drove from station to station doing the various service projects (frosting cookies for the bishopric, washing the chairs in the primary room and making cards for the missionaries), after each project was complete they earned a "service buck" (which I was in charge of making, so of course I roped my dad into drawing a service station monster for me to use on my bucks), they then could use their service bucks to buy treats, popcorn and drinks at the drive-in. They all bought their treats and parked their cars to watch Mr. Kruger's Christmas. It was a ton of fun!! The kids loved it! And of course Brian and Jordyn went all out making Jordyn's car super fantastic. It had a front end added, working head lights and tail lights and lots of decorations cut by my cricut. Everyone loved it!!


You can't tell in the pictures but the headlights are on, Brian used a battery operated strand of Christmas lights so Jordyn could turn them on and off with a button. It was SO cute!!



My service monster (art by Scott Minson :) I couldn't find where I kept my master copy of the finished service bucks but they were pretty cute if I do say so myself!

Christmas Dance Program...*ominous music*

Jordyn's 1st dance concert was just a small class one in their dance studio. It was for Christmas. It was a nightmare. We invited both sets of grandparents thinking it would be fun to show our daughter off. WRONG!! Jordyn wanted nothing to do with any of it. She wouldn't do her name shape, she wouldn't go put her costume on without me, she wouldn't dance much even with me sitting, like an idiot, in the middle of the floor, she refused to see Santa after and she wouldn't stand with her friends for the class photo. I think she might have done her skipping but that's it. Needless to say we were all VERY glad when it was over. But have no fear, as I catch up on more posts you'll see that my baby bear decides dancing in front of people is downright fun and has turned into quite the little ham. Here are a few pictures, they are pretty cute, you'd never know they were taken during one of the worst parenting moments of our lives...

Pumpkin the dog: A love story

Preschool, how I love thee let me count the ways...
So anyway Jordyn attends Donna Gregory's Preschool right here in our neighborhood. Ms. Donna is FANTASTIC!! She has been teaching preschool for more then 20 years, she also happens to be our Primary president (I think this is her 3rd time...) so Jordyn gets to see her a lot which is a good thing because with the summer break I fear we are going to be driven crazy for lack of school and dance. Since Donna has been in the preschool game for quite awhile she does some really fun things with and for the kids. Well one of these awesome things was in October she got each kid a pumpkin and let them decorate it with stickers. Jordyn was thrilled! She brought her pumpkin home and promptly dubbed him "Pumpkin the dog" and played with him nonstop. Man she loved that thing! Well being that he wasn't carved he luckily lasted into December (I think) and when it came time to say goodbye we had one sad little girl (getting squishy and yucky isn't a good reason to ditch a friend in a 3 year olds mind). Well needless to say we were finally able to throw him out but only after we took several pictures of the duo. So thank you again Donna for a wonderful idea and making a little girl very, very happy. =)

Thanksgiving in St. George!!

This past Thanksgiving we were able to spend Thanksgiving with my grandparents in St. George. It was lots of fun!! Not only did we have lots of yummy food but we played tons of games, bowled our hearts out on the Wii, played bacci, visited, went for drives, played at the park and otherwise had a grand time. We even got to go see the Christmas lights at the St. George Temple, I can't even tell you how happy palm trees covered in Christmas lights makes me!! Granted it could have been warmer but it sure beat the 5 degrees that it was back home!! Here are a few highlights:

Jordyn and Grandma Pollei, they are 2 peas in a pod!


Jordy and I with Uncle Greg. I'm pretty sure Greg is Jordyn's favorite person ever *lol* She is his little shadow any time we are down there!






Our field security!

I'm pretty sure this is perfect form =)